Neighbor Grady Sibbett told The Fayetteville Observer he heard the plane having issues as it passed his home.

“I tell you what it sounded like, sounded like a Volkswagen backfiring. Pop, pop, pop, pop,” Sibbett told the newspaper. “I said that plane’s got issues. I’m a mechanic and it sounded like he ran out of gas. And he plowed into that house.”